Wanalytics: Geo-distributed analytics for a data intensive world

Ashish Vulimiri, Carlo Curino, P. Brighten Godfrey, Thomas Jungblut, Konstantinos Karanasos, Jitu Padhye, George Varghese

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Abstract

Many large organizations collect massive volumes of data each day in a geographically distributed fashion, at data centers around the globe. Despite their geographically diverse origin the data must be processed and analyzed as a whole to extract insight. We call the problem of supporting large-scale geo-distributed analytics Wide-Area Big Data (WABD). To the best of our knowledge, WABD is currently addressed by copying all the data to a central data center where the analytics are run. This approach consumes expensive cross-data center bandwidth and is incompatible with data sovereignty restrictions that are starting to take shape. We instead propose WANalytics, a system that solves the WABD problem by orchestrating distributed query execution and adjusting data replication across data centers in order to minimize bandwidth usage, while respecting sovereignty requirements. WANalytics achieves an up to 360× reduction in data transfer cost when compared to the centralized approach on both real Microsoft production workloads and standard synthetic benchmarks, including TPC-CH and Berkeley Big-Data. In this demonstration, attendees will interact with a live geo-scale multi-data center deployment of WANalytics, allowing them to experience the data transfer reduction our system achieves, and to explore how it dynamically adapts execution strategy in response to changes in the workload and environment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGMOD 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1087-1092
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450327589
DOIs
StatePublished - May 27 2015
EventACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2015 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: May 31 2015Jun 4 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Volume2015-May
ISSN (Print)0730-8078

Other

OtherACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2015
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period5/31/156/4/15

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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